Worst-Case Casting, wasRe: Could the Movie be this bad?

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--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> It sound like you imagined DISNEY had done it.  Let's see: One of 
the 
> Backstreet Boys for Harry.. Britney Spears for Hermione (that's 
what 
> was probably on your mind with the Barbie Doll. Pre-Engorgement 
charm 
> or post?)  John Goodman for Hagrid.. It's possible to make an even 
> worse movie than the one they're probably making now.
> 
> Be afraid. Be very afraid.
 

Oh, no. Disney'd cast it like this;

-Harry; Frankie Muniz
-Ron; Jake Lloyd
-Weasley twins; Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (did I mention that in 
this version the twins are in the same year as Harry? And aren't 
related to Ron? Oh, yeah, they're girls, too)
-Hermione; written out (with the Olsen twins, there "wasn't room for 
another girl" 
-Draco; written out 
-Percy; Topher Grace (That '70's Prefect[?])
 
-Dumbledore; Fyvush Finkel
-McGonagall; Madonna. ('Nuff said)
-Snape; written out (too "gray" a character for Disney)
-Hagrid; Drew Carrey
-Voice of ALL ghosts- Robin Williams
 
-Vernon Dursley; Arnold Schwartzenegger (at whose insistence, the 
character is turned into a Really Nice Guy who shows up for all of 
Harry's Quidditch matches. And is the only Austrian living in the UK 
to drive a Hummer)
-Petunia Dursley; Roseanne Whatever-She-Calls-Herself-This-Week. 
(Also swallowed the Niceness Potion)
-Dudley; Billy Gilman (shades of Alternity, there)

-Quirrell; Brad Pitt
-Voldemort; written out